"Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion."
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"He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds."
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"The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because."
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"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."
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"Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom."
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"These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps"
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"Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own."
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"It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him."
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"To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures."
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"In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die."
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"The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty."
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"Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great."
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"To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul."
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"He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality"
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"Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious."
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"Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything."
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"If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go."
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"We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime."
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"There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate."
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"The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls."
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